296/365 - Marshall Arts Practices for our SCA group

There are several areas that folks practice for their arts for the SCA.

The first here is Thrown Weapons. Whether they be daggers, hatchets or spears, one needs practice to get these items to embed themselves into the targets for points

In this picture if you look closely you can see his dagger in mid flight by the boarded window of this shed.






Then there is the Heavy Fighters! These guys make their own armor and chainmail for fighting. The swords they carry are real but for combat they use hard padded swords so that they do not injure seriously the other guy. They get plenty of bumps and bruises from the impact of hitting each other with these padded swords. They make their own shields as well from wood and metal and then place their symbol upon the shield.

In this practice the older fighter in the long chainmail is instructing the younger fighter how to block and why he needs to watch his legs as well as his head and chest.

Then there are the Archers!! This is Rodri Glynglas (Ryan my darling) shooting at the target. Usually at events we have three targets with which to aim at set up at intervals of 20 yards, 30 yards and 40 yards. Here he is shooting at 20 yards.

The weather today was perfect for practice. Yesterday it rained to beat the band but today the sun was shining and the Bald Eagles were soaring overhead!!!


Photos taken by Vana on Hiway 20 near Anacortes WA.